scholarly journals Welcome to IMIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (01) ◽  
pp. 263-265
Keyword(s):  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
European Federation ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
North African ◽  
Liaison Officer ◽  
African Health ◽  
President Elect

President Dr. Christoph Lehmann, United States (2017–2019) President elect Dr. Sabine Koch, Sweden (2017–201 9) Past President Dr. Hyeoun-Ae Park, South Korea (2017–2019) Secretary Dr. Petter Hurlen, Norway (2015–2021) Treasurer Johanna Westbrook, Australia (2017–2020) Vice Presidents MedInfoDr. Patrick Weber, Switzerland (2017–2019)MembershipDr. Daniel Luna, Argentina (2018–2021)ServicesDr. Brigitte Seroussi, France (2016–2019)Special AffairsDr. Elizabeth Borycki, Canada (2016–2019)Working & Special Interest Groups Dr. Ying (Helen) Wu, China (2016–2019) CEO Elaine Huesing, Canada IMIA Web site: www.imia.org Regional Vice Presidents to IMIA APAMI: Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Dr. Vajira Dissanayake, Sri Lanka EFMI: European Federation for Medical Informatics Dr. Christian Lovis, Switzerland HELINA: Pan African Health Informatics Association Dr. Ghislain Kouematchoua Tchuitcheu, Germany/Cameroon IMIA-LAC: Health Informatics Association for Latin America and the Caribbean Marcelo Lucio da Silva, Brazil MENAHIA: Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association Dr. Riyad Al Shammari, Saudi Arabia North American Region Andre Kushniruk, Canada IMIA Liaison Officers, ex officio WHO Liaison OfficerDr. Antoine Geissbuhler, SwitzerlandIFIP Liaison OfficerDr. Hiroshi Takeda, JapanISO Liaison OfficerDr. Michio Kimura, Japan

scholarly journals Welcome to IMIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 259-260
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
European Federation ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Liaison Officer ◽  
African Health ◽  
President Elect

BOARD President Sabine Koch, Sweden (2019 - 2021) President elect Jack Li, Taiwan (2019 - 2021) Past President Chris Lehmann, United States (2019 - 2021) Secretary Dr. Petter Hurlen, Norway (2015 - 2021) Treasurer Johanna Westbrook, Australia (2017 - 2020) Vice Presidents MedInfoNajeeb Al-Shorbaji, Jordon (2020 - 2021)MembershipDr. Daniel Luna, Argentina (2018 - 2021)ServicesDr. Brigitte Séroussi, France (2016 - 2019)Special AffairsJennifer Bichel-Findlay, Australia (2019 - 2022)Working & Special Interest GroupsLuis Fernandez Luque (2019- 2022) CEO Elaine Huesing, Canada IMIA Web site: www.imia.org Regional Vice Presidents to IMIA APAMI: Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Vajira Dissanayake, Sri Lanka EFMI: European Federation for Medical Informatics Christian Lovis, Switzerland HELINA: Pan African Health Informatics Association Ghislain Kouematchoua Tchuitcheu, Germany/Cameroon IMIA-LAC: Health Informatics Association for Latin America and the Caribbean Marcelo Lucio da Silva, Brazil MENAHIA: Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association Riyad Al Shammari, Saudi Arabia North American Region James Cimino, United States IMIA Liaison Officers, ex officio WHO Liaison OfficerPatrick Weber, SwitzerlandIFIP Liaison OfficerHiroshi Takeda, JapanISO Liaison OfficerMichio Kimura, Japan

scholarly journals WELCOME TO IMIA!

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 302-303
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Special Interest Groups ◽  
European Federation ◽  
Vice Presidents ◽  
Liaison Officer ◽  
African Health ◽  
President Elect

BOARD President Sabine Koch, Sweden (2019 - 2021) President elect Jack Li, Taiwan (2019 - 2021) Past President Chris Lehmann, United States (2019 - 2021) Secretary Petter Hurlen, Norway (2015 - 2021) Secretary elect Ursula Hübner, Germany (2020 - 2021) Treasurer Phil Robinson, Australia (2020 - 2023) Vice Presidents MedInfoNajeeb Al-Shorbaji, Jordon (2020 - 2023)MembershipDaniel Luna, Argentina (2018 - 2021)ServicesLina Soualmia, France (2020 - 2023)Special AffairsJennifer Bichel-Findlay, Australia (2019 - 2022)Working & Special Interest GroupsLuis Fernandez Luque (2019- 2022) CEO Elaine Huesing, Canada IMIA Web site: www.imia.org Regional Vice Presidents to IMIA APAMI: Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics Naoki Nakashima, Japan EFMI: European Federation for Medical Informatics Lacramioara Stoicu-Tivodar, Romania HELINA: Pan African Health Informatics Association Ghislain Kouematchoua Tchuitcheu, Germany/Cameroon IMIA-LAC: Health Informatics Association for Latin America and the Caribbean Marcelo Lucio da Silva, Brazil MENAHIA: Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association Dari Alhuwail, Kuwait North American Region James Cimino, United States IMIA Liaison Officers, ex officio WHO Liaison OfficerPatrick Weber, SwitzerlandIFIP Liaison OfficerHiroshi Takeda, JapanISO Liaison OfficerMichio Kimura, JapanIAHSI (The Academy) Liaison OfficerWilliam Hersh

scholarly journals Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA): Building Sustainable Collaboration

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 286-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Najeeb Al-Shorbaji ◽  
Mowafa Househ ◽  
Adel Taweel ◽  
Abdullah Alanizi ◽  
Bennani Mohammed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
North African ◽  
International Forum ◽  
African Region ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
African Health ◽  
Research And Education

SummaryThere has been a growing interest in Health Informatics applications, research, and education within the Middle East and North African Region over the past twenty years. People of this region share similar cultural and religious values, primarily speak the Arabic language, and have similar health care related issues, which are in dire need of being addressed. Health Informatics efforts, organizations, and initiatives within the region have been largely under-represented within, but not ignored by, the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). Attempts to create bonds and collaboration between the different organizations of the region have remained scattered, and often, resulted in failure despite the fact that the need for a united health informatics collaborative within the region has never been more crucial than today. During the 2017 MEDINFO, held in Hangzhou, China, a new organization, the Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA) was conceived as a regional non-governmental organization to promote and facilitate health informatics uptake within the region endorsing health informatics research and educational initiatives of the 22 countries represented within the region. This paper provides an overview of the collaboration and efforts to date in forming MENAHIA and displays the variety of initiatives that are already occurring within the MENAHIA region, which MENAHIA will help, endorse, support, share, and improve within the international forum of health informatics.

scholarly journals Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA): A New Opportunity for the Region

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (01) ◽  
pp. 292-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riyad Alshammari ◽  
Najeeb Al-Shorbaji ◽  
Zakiuddin Ahmed ◽  
Zaid Al-Hamadan ◽  
Abdulwahhab Alshammari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
North African ◽  
African Region ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
African Health ◽  
Education Delivery

During the 2018 IMIA General Assembly (GA) held on Oct 2018 in Sri Lanka, a new organization, the Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA) was established as a regional non-governmental organization to promote Health Informatics in the region. Health Informatics activities in applications, education, and research have been growing in the Middle East and North African region for many years. Over the past year, health informatics initiatives within the region focused on the education sector and the workforce. The need to enhance the education delivery and methods is essential in promoting Health Informatics in the region as well as establishing master programs in many countries within the region.This paper provides an overview of the variety of initiatives that are occurring in the region and are endorsed by MENAHIA.

scholarly journals Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (01) ◽  
pp. 290-294
Author(s):  
Dari Alhuwail ◽  
Eiman Al-Jafar ◽  
Riyad Alshammari ◽  
Najeeb Al-Shorbaji ◽  
Osama El Hassan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
North African ◽  
African Region ◽  
The Past ◽  
African Health ◽  
Technological Developments

SummaryOver the years, Health Informatics initiatives in the Middle East and North African region have been thriving with a number of different educational, scientific, professional, and technological developments taking place. Within the past year, Health Informatics initiatives in the region have focused on the educational and capacity building efforts. This regional report provides an overview of the wide spectrum of initiatives and developments that are taking place within the region which are supported by the Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA).

scholarly journals Managing Pandemic Responses with Health Informatics – Challenges for Assessing Digital Health Technologies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah Magrabi ◽  
Elske Ammenwerth ◽  
Catherine K. Craven ◽  
Kathrin Cresswell ◽  
Nicolet F. De Keizer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Technology Assessment ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Value Of Information ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
European Federation ◽  
Health Technologies

Objectives: To highlight the role of technology assessment in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: An overview of existing research and evaluation approaches along with expert perspectives drawn from the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Working Group on Technology Assessment and Quality Development in Health Informatics and the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) Working Group for Assessment of Health Information Systems. Results: Evaluation of digital health technologies for COVID-19 should be based on their technical maturity as well as the scale of implementation. For mature technologies like telehealth whose efficacy has been previously demonstrated, pragmatic, rapid evaluation using the complex systems paradigm which accounts for multiple sociotechnical factors, might be more suitable to examine their effectiveness and emerging safety concerns in new settings. New technologies, particularly those intended for use on a large scale such as digital contract tracing, will require assessment of their usability as well as performance prior to deployment, after which evaluation should shift to using a complex systems paradigm to examine the value of information provided. The success of a digital health technology is dependent on the value of information it provides relative to the sociotechnical context of the setting where it is implemented. Conclusion: Commitment to evaluation using the evidence-based medicine and complex systems paradigms will be critical to ensuring safe and effective use of digital health technologies for COVID-19 and future pandemics. There is an inherent tension between evaluation and the imperative to urgently deploy solutions that needs to be negotiated.

scholarly journals Middle East and North African Health Informatics Association (MENAHIA)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmood Tara ◽  
Taweel Adel ◽  
Alhuwail Dari ◽  
Dena A. Al Thani ◽  
Eiman Al-Jafar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
North African ◽  
Mena Countries ◽  
Common Basis ◽  
African Health ◽  
The Common ◽  
Regional Work

The unforeseen pandemic of COVID-19 forced all countries worldwide to appreciate digital solutions and their potential contributions in managing such outbreaks. Countries began to share their knowledge and ongoing experiences on how to employ the latest technologies to trace infected cases, warn people on potential danger, increase social and population awareness, and how to provide effective and efficient telehealth services. MENAHIA (The Middle East and North Africa Health Informatics Association), established in 2018, as a new IMIA regional chapter which has started regional work in several areas of collaboration and knowledge sharing, particularly focused on the common basis of MENA countries’ needs towards health informatics solutions regarding COVID-19 crisis management. This article briefly presents health informatics activities and prospects by countries of the Region with a non-exclusive focus on the COVID-19 pandemic. Needless to say, not all the countries have reported using this platform, and some may have reported through other venues.

Guidance for preparing evaluation reports in telemedicine and health informatics generally

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 325-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hailey
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Studies ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
European Federation ◽  
Current Version ◽  
Evaluation Report

The European Federation for Medical Informatics is developing a detailed guideline for preparing evaluation reports. By doing this, it is hoped that the quality of evaluation studies in health informatics will improve and thus the evidence base. While much of the necessary information for preparing good quality evaluation publications is available in other documents, the Statement on Reporting of Evaluation Studies in Health Informatics (STARE-HI) is valuable in bringing together many points into a single document. The current version is comprehensive and includes valuable information on a number of areas. A list of recommended items for inclusion in an evaluation report is given. There is perhaps a danger that some authors might be intimidated by the suggested detail to be provided. Nonetheless, the Federation is to be congratulated for putting together a comprehensive guideline which promises to be a useful contribution to improving the quality of evaluation studies in information technology, including telemedicine.

scholarly journals New Scopes for Practice – Interdisciplinary Webinars for Emergency Medicine and Biomedical Informatics – Health Informatics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaija Saranto ◽  
Catherine Chronaki ◽  
Luis Garcia-Castrillo Riesgo ◽  
Louise B. Pape-Haugaard ◽  
John Mantas
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Medicine ◽  
Health System ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
European Society ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Emergency Departments ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
Biomedical Informatics ◽  
Interdisciplinary Cooperation ◽  
European Federation

This paper presents the early outcomes of the educational cooperation between two European academic associations, namely the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI) and European Society of Emergency Medicine (EUSEM). Two webinars were organized in December 2019 and June 2020 to explore areas where mutual education would be beneficial for interdisciplinary cooperation to advance the digitization of emergency departments for the benefit of patients, health professionals and the health system as a whole. Preliminary findings from the analysis of these two webinars are presented and the steps for further cooperation are outlined.

Health Informatics: Handle with Caution

1997 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 79-81
Author(s):  
V. Leroy ◽  
S. Maurice-Tison ◽  
B. Le Blanc ◽  
R. Salamon
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Data Management ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Data Security ◽  
Health Informatics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Inappropriate Use

Abstract:The increased use of computers is a response to the considerable growth in information in all fields of activities. Related to this, in the field of medicine a new component appeared about 40 years ago: Medical Informatics. Its goals are to assist health care professionals in the choice of data to manage and in the choice of applications of such data. These possibilities for data management must be well understood and, related to this, two major dangers must be emphasized. One concerns data security, and the other concerns the processing of these data. This paper discusses these items and warns of the inappropriate use of medical informatics.

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